• Letizia, too "old" to wear a minidress?

Alessandro Lequio has elucidated the great mystery: Ana Obregón is 68 years old and not 71, as the 'bad tongues' pointed out. An enigma that, if I remember correctly, I have been hearing about since I (not Obregón) was a teenager and she dated one of my great idols, Fernando Martín, whomour, according to murmurs, 'took out a few years'.

In her day, they also saw her a little 'talludita' to be the girlfriend of Davor Suker, who was 13 years old. Moved by the rumors that linked her with her husband, Victoria Beckham did not hesitate to call her 'Geriatric Barbie' during that heated meeting they had in the gym of La Moraleja to which both were regulars (David, too). At that time, the actress and presenter was in her 50s. Of the trickle of epithets related to her age that fell when she rolled up with that Polish adonis two decades younger than her named Darius, we better not even speak.

Reviewing her history, it might seem that Ana Obregón has always been 'old' (even when she was 30 years old), if we accept as 'old', yes, the concept of the subject that has all those people who put so much label people (especially women) by virtue of their age, establishing what is proper or appropriate in each of the stages of life.

According to this criterion, in addition to the consequent time to pair, have children, etc. there is a specific time to stop wearing long hair, wearing shorts, putting on a bikini or showing your knees (the one that messed up, last summer, with Queen Letizia's minidress!). Obviously, and by extension, at that precise moment, there is a haircut, pants, makeup and even certain sneakers that, apparently, are adequate, according to criteria that, honestly, escape me and of which, at the risk of looking like "a woman without class" in the eyes of Carolina Herrera, I pass three villages.

Before continuing to rummage, as José Mota would say, it is necessary to clarify that this is not an apology for Ana Obregón and her surrogacy (nothing is further from my intention), a dramatic matter that, honestly, causes me a twinge in the heart for all the implications it entails. My reflection, once again, focuses on this incessant obsession with chronological age that we have in a society accustomed to using the years as a throwing weapon instead of as a sign of experience and, above all, of health (poor of the one who fails to fulfill them!), as I myself experienced again in my 'secarras' meats when, A couple of weeks ago, I dared to invite a well-known 'streamer' to stop promoting junk food in his broadcasts (old starving gauge – another day, if that, we talk about 'skinnyphobia' – up, which put me during those days that the storm raged and in which a photo was published with my age next to my name and surname – in the plan of 'Wanted' poster of the Old West—as if this was a reason why I should be ashamed or something.)

To me, the truth, the three years up or down Obregón seems to me the least in the middle of the authentic drama that supposes all that story of his granddaughter, but the commotion that is mounted by them reveals the 'morbazo' chungo and ridiculous that awakens this of the ages of the people.

And, since we are with the ages, what has not been talked about as much as it should be - certainly not as much as Obregón's 68 - is the 81 years with which Sandy Hazelip and Ellie Hamby, two adorable lifelong American friends, have been encouraged to go around the world in 80 days, demonstrating, once again, that chronological age is nothing more than a figure and not an absurd label that condemns us to live corseted in a way of being, dressing, thinking, looking and, in short, living.

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And, since we are, it would not be bad that, in addition to stopping torpedoing ourselves with haircuts we should do from 50 to 'look younger', we would forget forever never of taglines like that hateful "good that is for the age it has".

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